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Believe it or not, dentistry isn’t all mundane performance targets and crinkly PPE.

Believe it or not, dentistry isn’t all mundane performance targets and crinkly PPE.
England’s NHS dentists will be casting an envious glance over the border, after the Welsh Government announced that the principality’s practitioners will never be returning to the ‘failed’ UDA system.
The Care Quality Commission has effectively taken the lead in regulating Direct To Consumer Orthodontics, following the General Dental Council’s failure so far, to take any direct action on overseeing the growing industry.
The General Dental Council has decided to appeal against a demand from the Information Commissioner, to reveal the contents of an email relating to the regulator’s decision to make controversial top-up furlough payments to its staff.
The former lover of a Northern Irish dentist who murdered both his wife and his lover’s husband, has spoken out from prison, with claims that the dentist tested ‘knock-out’ gas on her, before he used it in order to abuse women at his Coleraine surgery.
Read more: Double-Murderer Dentist: Accomplice Speaks Out From Gaol
The dental challenges that the newly-appointed Secretary of State for Health faces in his new role have been outlined on the BBC’s television news programme, Politics London by the British Dental Association’s Shawn Charlwood.
Read more: Where Does Dentistry Lie In The New Health Secretary’s In-Tray?